Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe : representations, transfers and exchanges / edited by Frantisek Sistek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sistek, Frantisek

Contributor:

Sistek, Frantisek, editor.

Series:

Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Public opinion--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Muslims.

Muslims--Public opinion--Balkan Peninsula.

Muslims--Public opinion--Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Berghahn Books, [2021]

Summary:

As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. To a significant degree, the wider representations and perceptions of this population can be traced to the reports of Central European—and especially Habsburg—diplomats, scholars, journalists, tourists, and other observers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims’ encounters with the West since the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The ‘Turkish Threat’ and Early Modern Central Europe: Czech Reflections

Chapter 2. The Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina between Millet and Nation

Chapter 3. Ambivalent Perceptions: Austria–Hungary, Bosnian Muslims and the Occupation Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878)

Chapter 4. Sleeping Beauty’s Awakening: Habsburg Colonialism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1918

Chapter 5. Th e Portrayal of Muslims in Austro-Hungarian State Primary School Textbooks for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Chapter 6. Towards Secularity: Autonomy and Modernization of Bosnian Islamic Institutions under Austro-Hungarian Administration

Chapter 7. Under the Slavic Crescent: Representations of Bosnian Muslims in Czech Literature, Travelogues and Memoirs, 1878–1918

Chapter 8. Divided Identities in the Bosnian Narratives of Vjenceslav Novak and Rebecca West

Chapter 9. Austronostalgia and Bosnian Muslims in the Work of Croatian Anthropologist Vera Stein Erlich

Chapter 10. Th e Serbian Proverb Poturica gori od Turčina (A Turk-Convert Is Worse Th an a Turk): Stigmatizer and Figure of Speech

Chapter 11. From Brothers to Others? Changing Images of Bosnian Muslims in (Post-)Yugoslav Slovenia

Chapter 12. Exploring Religious Views among Young People of Bosnian Muslim Origin in Berlin

Chapter 13. The West, the Balkans and the In-Between: Bosnian Muslims Representing a European Islam

Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-773-8

1-78920-775-4

OCLC:

1235966290